On the 14th of June, antiwar protesters showed up at the CIA's Dolly Madison Ave entrance as drone flights over Iraq began anew. As usual, the CIA shut down the entrance due to the presence of the protesters. They have been there the second Saturday of every month since November 2012 demanding an end to the use of armed drones for assasination and bombing. Now, Obama is making menacing speeches about returning to combat in Iraq, but somehow doing it without ground troops.

Although Iraq is the latest expansion of drone overflights, protesters pointedly condemned the recent drone killings in Pakistan, the first there in six months. One of the speakers talked of an earlier case where a young girl survived a drone strike that killed the rest of her family-with most of her face blown of. So much for "clean, surgical strikes!"

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